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by vesinisa 8y ago
Did someone say OneDrive?
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> Pijul is bootstrapped, meaning that we use it for its own development. See its repository there: https://nest.pijul.com/pijul_org/pijul Seems like the server can not handle the HN load? Unaccessible for me at leas
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by vesinisa 8y ago
> But if a negative mass is moving towards you and encounters a repulsive force, that repulsive force will, by definition, move the negative mass further toward you I am not sure you understand what "repulse" means.. Joking asi
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.5 = ½ = 50%
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Far more important is the search traffic I'd guess, but it will obviously go dark in concert with Google News.
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The very idea that the aggregator (Google) should pay the advertisers (news sites) for directing traffic to them is just patently absurd. By common sense, it should be the other way around. Sadly, the traditional media has a massive confl
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Everest dominates Mauna Kea in prominence. In fact, Everest dominates any peak on Earth in prominence, since it's the tallest peak. By the mathematical definition of prominence, the dry prominence of Everest is always measured from t
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by vesinisa 8y ago
The lowest bottom of the Challenger Deep encircles the Everest. Think of the "outside" of the circle being the deepest point, and the "inside" of the circle being all rest of the Earth.
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Yes, that is correct. At almost 20,000 km, the dry prominence of Everest is by definition the maximum possible on Earth. You only get to claim Kea more prominent if you use a different standard to measure it!
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There's actually a great difference, because for binary distribution it simply suffices that the user verify the cryptographic hash of the binary they downloaded. Then they can be confident that they were served the correct publicly di
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Did you read the article? The system is designed so that an authentication token is derived from the password, and this token, rather than the password itself, is authenticated against on the server. Since the encryption key can not be d
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"Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" by Karsten Nohl and Nemanja Nikodijevic from CCC 2016. It exposes how insanely ancient and insecure the global flight booking system is, allowing for stealing of personal information and ev
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> The Archives will be digitizing the 1940s photos in 2018. You can buy high-quality prints of the 1940s and 1980s photos via the "Order Online" link on the Municipal Archives website. https://www1.nyc.gov/dorfo
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Haha, had exactly this happen to me, which is why I switched to CIFS / Samba. I don't know what I was doing wrong, but each time the LAN connection to my file server broke, NFS would enter a state where any attempt to touch the fi
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Looks like an OpenBSD version of Docker.
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For a simple client, the original RFC 1459 is still just enough.
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Given that there is definitive visual structure to primes themselves[1], it would be rather surprising if prime factorization had none. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
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I hope you have noticed that in GMail you can swtich between different "density" modes. In your Inbox, click on the cogwheel on the right-hand top corner and select the second option "Display density". The "Compact&
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by vesinisa 8y ago
> you can opt-out off the tracking in 3 clicks, and your data is safe (so far) Yes, if you know where to click! But would you have known without reading this that disabling "Location History" does not actually .. well .. disabl
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This is a regrettable, yet a sadly common view. "If you use products by Company X, you must understand they gather an immerse personal profile on you - like it or not. That's just how Company X works! If you don't like that,
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> To see the map, you have to have map data, and which data you pull is going to give a very strong hint of your location. You are missing the point. While the location for which you fetch map data essentially reveals your current locati
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There is a great deal more information about how sycalls are implemented on Linux in this excellent free GitHub book called linux-insides : https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/tree/master/SysCall I ca
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As a developer working with an app that integrates fingerprint authentication - thank god for BiometricPrompt! It sounds awesome - finally a cross-OEM official API to do fingerprint auth with one callback and with a uniform, "standard&
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For example GitHub Enterprise account does not differentiate between security levels of token and SMS based 2FA so the issue seems more widespread.
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Yes, but combining DRM and geoblocking allows the content distributor to retroactively revoke access to content when you change the geoblocking region, such as traveling to another continent. Even content that you have downloaded to an of
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Moreover, DRM enables content industry to control where content can be played, known as geoblocking. For example, I live in North Europe, and the titles that are available in 'official', DRM-controlled sources, such as Netflix,
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Yes, that's the whole point - combining transportation methods. Taxicabs, trains and bike sharing are all available via different apps and APIs. Whim aims to work as type of an aggregator who offers them all in the same app.
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No, that is the Pacific Theatre. Eastern Front in WWII unambiguously refers to the European theatre of the Axis-Soviet conflict in Western post-war study. The problem with that term is of course that from the Soviet/Russian perspective
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Or any GNU/Linux distribution, which actually offer a superior developer experience in my opinion. People complaining about their Macs type posts constantly top HN. Usually the comments are filled with further moaning about how things
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Yeah sure - I bet if you live in a region where no company has bought exclusive television rights to F1. In my country, a pay channel owns exclusive rights to all F1 broadcasting, so all official F1 content on YouTube etc. is simply blocked

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